When the libraries are closed, slogging though a recent biography of Goethe -- saw it in the TLS a couple of weeks ago. Not really a philosophical biography, more the sort of Life one might write for a novelist. Very approachable and clear, though -- general audience, not exclusively for the scholarship. Works cited (Beiser et al.) are the things I've been working through, so I'm apparently on the right track.
Interesting, his father's library had Albertus Magnus, but not Aquinas. And then the son becomes this mage of nature and patron to the philosophers. Careful the tale you tell. Or have on the low shelves.